Bundled Payments

The trend toward bundled pricing and payments is growing — and being tested and implemented by private insurers, as well as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Truven Health Analytics can offer unique, data-driven insights based on our research into bundled payments to help providers and payers understand and conquer this new challenge.

Research Series: Commercial Bundled Payments

As the industry anticipates bundled pricing initiatives, Truven Health is studying total knee and hip joint replacement cost variation and drivers in the commercially insured population — using recent claims data gathered into simulated bundled payment episodes. Our results will be featured in a series of at least three bundled payment research briefs released in 2016. Available and downloadable briefs are featured at right.

Why It's Important

Providers need to know where they stand in relation to regional pricing, so they can take action to close cost, efficiency, and performance gaps that will affect them under bundled payment arrangements.

Commercial payers need to identify the best ways to define bundles and predict what those definitions will do for patient care and costs.

Why Truven Health Analytics

Our 30 years of working with commercial claims data to understand cost and utilization patterns. Our cross-market expertise and 360-degree view. And our passion for healthcare improvement. Together, these factors make us uniquely qualified to help all facets of the industry address new challenges and identify solutions that deliver greater value in healthcare.